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Hello, all:

I am writing a program that uses a modeless dialog box as its main window.
I am using Borland C 4.5.  My problem is the text I place in the edit boxes
with SetWindowText during WM_CREATE does not show up.  However, if I perform
the SetWindowText during a button press, they show up, but the styles ES_RIGHT
and ES_READONLY are ignored.

Any help solving this problem would be greatly appreciated.  Below are the
relavant code fragments.

Here is how the dialog box is initialized in WinMain:

   if ( !hPrevInstance )
   {
      BWCCRegister( hInstance );

      wndclass.style         = CS_HREDRAW | CS_VREDRAW;
      wndclass.lpfnWndProc   = WndProc;
      wndclass.cbClsExtra    = 0;
      wndclass.cbWndExtra    = DLGWINDOWEXTRA;
      wndclass.hInstance     = hInstance;
      wndclass.hIcon         = LoadIcon( hInstance, "ICON_WAITING" );
      wndclass.hCursor       = LoadCursor( NULL, IDC_ARROW );
      wndclass.hbrBackground = COLOR_WINDOW + 1;
      wndclass.lpszMenuName  = "MENU_1";
      wndclass.lpszClassName = BORGRAYCLASS;

      RegisterClass( &wndclass );
   }

   hwnd = CreateDialog( hInstance, szAppName, 0, NULL );

   ShowWindow( hwnd, nCmdShow );

Here is how the messages are processed in WndProc:

   switch ( message )
   {
      case WM_CREATE:   //create main window and initialize

         if ( !LoadConfiguration() )
         {
            MessageBox( hwnd, "Unable to create or read REMAILER.INI, quitting...",
                        "FILE CREATE/READ FAILURE", MB_ICONEXCLAMATION | MB_OK );
            PostQuitMessage( 0 );
         }
         else
         {
            // this doesn't work
            ...
            itoa( sInMail.iCheckTime, szTemp, 10 );
            SetWindowText( GetDlgItem( hwnd, IDC_EDITTIMETONEXT ), szTemp );
            ...
         }
         return 0;

      case WM_COMMAND:

         switch( wParam )
         {
            case IDC_PUSHBUTTONSTART:

               // this works, but ES_READONLY and ES_RIGHT ignored
               ...
               itoa( sInMail.iCheckTime, szTemp, 10 );
               SetWindowText( GetDlgItem( hwnd, IDC_EDITTIMETONEXT ), szTemp );
               ...
               return 0;

Here is the resource file for this dialog box:

   WinSockRemailer DIALOG 13, 52, 300, 134
   STYLE WS_OVERLAPPED | WS_VISIBLE | WS_CAPTION | WS_SYSMENU | WS_MINIMIZEBOX
   CLASS "BorDlg_Gray"
   CAPTION "WinSock Remailer"
   MENU MENU_1
   FONT 8, "MS Sans Serif"
   {
    ...
    EDITTEXT IDC_EDITREMBATCH, 93, 40, 30, 12, ES_RIGHT | ES_READONLY | NOT WS_TABSTOP | WS_BORDER
    EDITTEXT IDC_EDITREM24, 149, 40, 30, 12, ES_RIGHT | ES_READONLY | NOT WS_TABSTOP | WS_BORDER
    EDITTEXT IDC_EDITREMDATE, 205, 40, 30, 12, ES_RIGHT | ES_READONLY | NOT WS_TABSTOP | WS_BORDER
    ...
   }

Regards,

Joey Grasty

                                    ^^^^^^^^^
[...]

        Try making it a modal dialog box instead.

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